Gym Etiquette

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Mitch Blood Green
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What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)
Golem
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Don't get me started. The Greeks have ZERO idea about how to behave in public, much less a gym. Some examples:

1. Uses 4 pieces of equipment 'simultaneously', complains when you interrupted their monopoly

2. Uses equipment as coat racks. Angry when said clothing is moved.

3. Trainers 'coach' sit-ups in front of dumbbell rack, sitting on one bench, water on second, client on floor. Dumbbells impossible to reach.

4. Dumbbell rack used as foot rest while doing incline press. Workout instructions (because they need them written out) resting on other dumbbells. Several sets of dumbbells tgey 'might' use are stacked on top of other dumbbells.

5. Camps out on leg press like it's a lazy boy while talking on phone. Sleeveless shirt to show off pipe cleaners.

6. Doesn't re rack anything...ever..ever ever ever.

Mitch Blood Green
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GolemIII said:

Don't get me started. The Greeks have ZERO idea about how to behave in public, much less a gym. Some examples:

1. Uses 4 pieces of equipment 'simultaneously', complains when you interrupted their monopoly

2. Uses equipment as coat racks. Angry when said clothing is moved.

3. Trainers 'coach' sit-ups in front of dumbbell rack, sitting on one bench, water on second, client on floor. Dumbbells impossible to reach.

4. Dumbbell rack used as foot rest while doing incline press. Workout instructions (because they need them written out) resting on other dumbbells. Several sets of dumbbells tgey 'might' use are stacked on top of other dumbbells.

5. Camps out on leg press like it's a lazy boy while talking on phone. Sleeveless shirt to show off pipe cleaners.

6. Doesn't re rack anything...ever..ever ever ever.




What about the people who talk on their phone loudly instead of doing cardio? Or the guys who moan and groan then drop the weights, loudly?

Get off your phone.
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tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)
Damn. I did not realize I was bothering you. I thought you loved me.
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Dia del DougO
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I only played in Junior High because I was too fn' fat back then. But I wouldn't even take my clothes off in the shower.
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syme
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All the more reason I work out in my garage.
Brian Ethridge
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tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)


Had one at my office that used the community hair dryer to dry his bush while propping his leg up on the counter for a better angle.
Dia del DougO
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I remember the first time I got to go into the Baylor locker room after a game back in the 70s. My thoughts at the time,

"It's true..."
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
4th and Inches
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Brian Ethridge said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)


Had one at my office that used the community hair dryer to dry his bush while propping his leg up on the counter for a better angle.
my bad...
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Dia del DougO said:

I remember the first time I got to go into the Baylor locker room after a game back in the 70s. My thoughts at the time,

"It's true..."
A buddy of mine played baseball for San Jac back in the early 90's. One year there was some renovation work being done at the Summit so the Rockets used San Jac's basketball and gym facilities during the preseason. He said walking into the locker room/shower next to Hakeem Olajuwon and the rest of the players was one of the most humbling experiences of his life.
Mitch Blood Green
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Brian Ethridge said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)


Had one at my office that used the community hair dryer to dry his bush while propping his leg up on the counter for a better angle.


Just, wow!
Mitch Blood Green
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90sBear said:

Dia del DougO said:

I remember the first time I got to go into the Baylor locker room after a game back in the 70s. My thoughts at the time,

"It's true..."
A buddy of mine played baseball for San Jac back in the early 90's. One year there was some renovation work being done at the Summit so the Rockets used San Jac's basketball and gym facilities during the preseason. He said walking into the locker room/shower next to Hakeem Olajuwon and the rest of the players was one of the most humbling experiences of his life.


My nephew worked radio for the Magic. He's about 5'6". I told him he's gonna walk into some balls.

Interview question for a short guy in the NBA. How long have you been a sack?
Mitch Blood Green
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80sBEAR said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)
Damn. I did not realize I was bothering you. I thought you loved me.


I haven't been naked with you for 34 years. Let me lather up that back to remember the love.
Guy Noir
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When I was in high school in the 1970's, we had PE class where all guys would swim au natural. It was an indoor pool where the doors were locked so the girls and outsiders could not get into the area.

All us guys laugh about it now. A person loses self-embarrassment through experiences like that.
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Brian Ethridge said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)


Had one at my office that used the community hair dryer to dry his bush while propping his leg up on the counter for a better angle.
What the hell?
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Guy Noir said:

When I was in high school in the 1970's, we had PE class where all guys would swim au natural. It was an indoor pool where the doors were locked so the girls and outsiders could not get into the area.

All us guys laugh about it now. A person loses self-embarrassment through experiences like that.
Was the teacher a perv? You skinny dip in the creek, not the classroom.
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90sBear said:

Dia del DougO said:

HI remember the first time I got to go into the Baylor locker room after a game back in the 70s. My thoughts at the time,

"It's true..."
A buddy of mine played baseball for San Jac back in the early 90's. One year there was some renovation work being done at the Summit so the Rockets used San Jac's basketball and gym facilities during the preseason. He said walking into the locker room/shower next to Hakeem Olajuwon and the rest of the players was one of the most humbling experiences of his life.
Back in the late 90s one of the Houston tv stations (2 or 13) was doing a live interview from the Rockets locker room during the 10 o'clock news after a playoff game. Forgot which player was being interviewed, but supposedly another one inadvertently walked past in the background sans towel, and was visible only from the chest down. About 30 women called the station claiming to be able to identify the suspect.
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Guy Noir said:

When I was in high school in the 1970's, we had PE class where all guys would swim au natural. It was an indoor pool where the doors were locked so the girls and outsiders could not get into the area.

All us guys laugh about it now. A person loses self-embarrassment through experiences like that.
I have lost mine while "dressed" in a hospital gown!
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tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)
Since when did you become homophobic, Bro?
saabing bear
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I spend a lot of time sweating with the oldies down at the NE San Antonio Senior Center. I can get speared with a pool cue if I don't wipe off the handles on the treadmill.
Brian Ethridge
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Every gym has a guy that struts when he shouldn't. I've given that guy the nickname of Chief Proudballs as he's got a lot to strut that out there proudly.
Mitch Blood Green
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Yogi said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)
Since when did you become homophobic, Bro?


I can't say they were gay. More like exibitionist.
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I'm gonna get my butt kicked in the gym one day. I'm the old guy who has no hesitation asking someone if they are done when they are looking at their phone. I'll also move stuff when people are "saving" equipment.

Yesterday, there was stuff on a treadmill. I realized after a few minutes that a woman was rotating between the treadmill and some other things nearby. It wasn't crowded so it wasn't a big deal. Except to me!

I was doing an easy run but I tend to sweat a lot on a treadmill (indoors). When she stepped away sweat began to splatter on her treadmill. The time she returned I was looking straight ahead. I noticed a pause and then she grabbed all her stuff and moved down the row. LOL.

If the meatheads leave a bench soaking wet, good chance I'll say something. I think I'm even odds in Vegas for getting murdered in a gym.

Speaking of meatheads, I just don't get being so jacked up your arms won't touch your side and you have zero cardio. I'm sure they wonder about running endlessly on a treadmill. They can't kill what they can't catch!

On the other hand, I'd love to have the physique of some of the guys who seem to lift in moderation.

Mitch Blood Green
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midgett said:

I'm gonna get my butt kicked in the gym one day. I'm the old guy who has no hesitation asking someone if they are done when they are looking at their phone. I'll also move stuff when people are "saving" equipment.

Yesterday, there was stuff on a treadmill. I realized after a few minutes that a woman was rotating between the treadmill and some other things nearby. It wasn't crowded so it wasn't a big deal. Except to me!

I was doing an easy run but I tend to sweat a lot on a treadmill (indoors). When she stepped away sweat began to splatter on her treadmill. The time she returned I was looking straight ahead. I noticed a pause and then she grabbed all her stuff and moved down the row. LOL.

If the meatheads leave a bench soaking wet, good chance I'll say something. I think I'm even odds in Vegas for getting murdered in a gym.

Speaking of meatheads, I just don't get being so jacked up your arms won't touch your side and you have zero cardio. I'm sure they wonder about running endlessly on a treadmill. They can't kill what they can't catch!

On the other hand, I'd love to have the physique of some of the guys who seem to lift in moderation.




Have you ever been in the treadmill area and the gym is mostly empty? Then have a guy come get on the machine right next to you?
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Problem #1 is the millenial problem.

They leave bizarre concoctions of protein shakes beside the racks. Jugs of water sitting by the dumbells. All of it spilling of course. For someone else to clean Then the death metal. Because nothing says bad ass like a guy that drives a Prius with SJW bumper stickers and cheating on a crossfit workout while listening to death metal.

Im also not particularly fond of women taking growth hormone. If your bicep is bigger than your breasts and you need to run that pony tail through a baseball hat for fashion, maybe a gym isn't the right place. Do your workout, be polite, GTFO.

I get to deal with the 160lb guy who peels his shirt off in a gym full of men/women/professionals and proceeds to flex in the mirror.





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tommie said:

midgett said:

I'm gonna get my butt kicked in the gym one day.


Have you ever been in the treadmill area and the gym is mostly empty? Then have a guy come get on the machine right next to you?
Pet peeve!

That's when I increase my speed and incline to generate maximum sweat. I can soak someone next to me if it's my objective. The way my sweat flings the adjoining treadmills usually need to be wiped down more than mine. I have gotten the lone ranger to move with sweat at least once.

There's another issue that seems counterintuitive. Often, there is a woman my age (50s) who gets on a elliptical directly in front of me. She wears long sweat pants that are hip huggers. The way she bends to use the elliptical causes her sweat pants to constantly slide down for major crack exposure. Trust me. In this case, it is not good.

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Brian Ethridge said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)


Had one at my office that used the community hair dryer to dry his bush while propping his leg up on the counter for a better angle.


He was just hanging brain, I really don't see what the big deal is. Sheesh
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Guy Noir said:

When I was in high school in the 1970's, we had PE class where all guys would swim au natural. It was an indoor pool where the doors were locked so the girls and outsiders could not get into the area.

All us guys laugh about it now. A person loses self-embarrassment through experiences like that.
Same in Houston ISD
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Brian Ethridge said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)


Had one at my office that used the community hair dryer to dry his bush while propping his leg up on the counter for a better angle.
We have a few at my gym that do the very same thing. Absolutely disgusting when you see it. Almost want to help their wives out and hand their husband's an article about manscaping.

Never understood the guys that want to have a deep thought conversation as they stand in front of you, without anything but a smile and a thought, Boundaries folks, boundaries!
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tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)
I don't get it, but it seems to happen at every gym.
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BaylorOkie said:

Brian Ethridge said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)


Had one at my office that used the community hair dryer to dry his bush while propping his leg up on the counter for a better angle.
What the hell?
This is so disturbing. You've made me visualize something in my mind that should never be there.
Brian Ethridge
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tommie said:

midgett said:

I'm gonna get my butt kicked in the gym one day. I'm the old guy who has no hesitation asking someone if they are done when they are looking at their phone. I'll also move stuff when people are "saving" equipment.

Yesterday, there was stuff on a treadmill. I realized after a few minutes that a woman was rotating between the treadmill and some other things nearby. It wasn't crowded so it wasn't a big deal. Except to me!

I was doing an easy run but I tend to sweat a lot on a treadmill (indoors). When she stepped away sweat began to splatter on her treadmill. The time she returned I was looking straight ahead. I noticed a pause and then she grabbed all her stuff and moved down the row. LOL.

If the meatheads leave a bench soaking wet, good chance I'll say something. I think I'm even odds in Vegas for getting murdered in a gym.

Speaking of meatheads, I just don't get being so jacked up your arms won't touch your side and you have zero cardio. I'm sure they wonder about running endlessly on a treadmill. They can't kill what they can't catch!

On the other hand, I'd love to have the physique of some of the guys who seem to lift in moderation.




Have you ever been in the treadmill area and the gym is mostly empty? Then have a guy come get on the machine right next to you?
Hate that guy. Same guy that drys his balls also walks the treadmill for an hour on his phone laughing and at 30 minutes he hops off to go take a dump that destroys the nostrils of anyone caught in there.
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UPBaylor said:

BaylorOkie said:

Brian Ethridge said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)


Had one at my office that used the community hair dryer to dry his bush while propping his leg up on the counter for a better angle.
What the hell?
This is so disturbing. You've made me visualize something in my mind that should never be there.
and you've seen **** in your real job that would make me puke.
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I dont care what guys around me wear. There was guy in the 8th grade that used to shower in his underwear. I wondered why but didnt wonder enough to ask him. Am I the only guy here that enjoys Hippie Hollow or Fire Island in New York?

Otoh, wiping down the equipment is a must.






















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Brian Ethridge said:

tommie said:

What's up with dudes who walk around locker rooms full on naked? (I'm sure it's the same for women)


Had one at my office that used the community hair dryer to dry his bush while propping his leg up on the counter for a better angle.
I used to work out at the JCC here in Austin and it was almost a given that two Brooklyn or Yonkers or wherever transplants would be doing the hair dryer to the bush thing.
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